{"id":18,"date":"2024-05-16T19:36:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-09-22T04:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:32:01","slug":"budgeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/budgeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Budgeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Definition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Marriam-Webster, budgeting is the amount of money that is available for, required for, or assigned to a particular purpose.<em>Adapted from:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/budget<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Budget Worksheet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you learn better hands on? Print out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/pdf-1020-make-budget-worksheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Budgeting Worksheet<\/a>&nbsp;to see how your monthly income and expenses work for you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Adapted from:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/articles\/pdf-1020-make-budget-worksheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/articles\/pdf-1020-make-budget-worksheet.pdf<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Budgeting for College | Money-Saving Tips for Students\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CamZzY2IExI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Budgeting Infographic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"Budget Infographic\" class=\"wp-image-20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image.jpeg 588w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/05\/image-190x300.jpeg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Adapted from:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everydollar.com\/blog\/budget-percentages?ectid=10.37.9972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.everydollar.com\/blog\/budget-percentages?ectid=10.37.9972<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition According to Marriam-Webster, budgeting is the amount of money that is available for, required for, or assigned to a particular purpose.Adapted from:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/budget Budget Worksheet Do you learn better hands on? Print out the&nbsp;Budgeting Worksheet&nbsp;to see how your monthly income and expenses work for you.&nbsp; Adapted from:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.consumer.ftc.gov\/articles\/pdf-1020-make-budget-worksheet.pdf Video Budgeting Infographic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/financialliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}